Got popcorn? Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow and a ton of “GOT TO KNOW ABOUT IT” content is all packed in just 1 hour of Episode 3. Try something different
tonight and take an hour break from coding. You know you deserve it. Grab your favorite beverage and pizza and enjoy this entertaining,…

Dharma Shukla, Architect for the
Live Framework, knows how to make developers happy. After delivering the programming model for the Workflow Foundation, he joined the Live Services team to develop a unified, simple and open way for developers to program against the full set of Live Services
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It's been way too long since Dare Obasanjo (of RSS Bandit and Carnage4Life fame) has appeared on C9. The last time was several years ago in an interview conducted by me and Scoble on a summer day outside of building 35 on the main MS campus in Redmond. What's Dare been up to since we last spoke?…

What's the difference between Live Services, Live Framework and Live Mesh? James Senior has arrived to explain how you can use Live Services in your applications today and how you can plan future
development with the Live Framework. For detailed developer information on APIs and documentation…

This is a personal invite from James Senior to attend the Live Services Hackathon in San Francisco
on May 27, 2009. Bring your code and work with the Live Services engineers to add Instant Messaging, Friends lists and more to your website.

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are joined by Steve Velat, a PhD student at Univ. of Florida working on cool autonomous robots. This week's news includes:
- Microsoft store launches (1:00 - 1:40)
- The New Xbox Experience is now available including new services like NetFlix, new avatars,…

"Special" guest host Ed Kaim is in the studio as Dan is down covering GDC.
This week's episode includes
- Microsoft announces DreamSpark
- Free software for students
- Max Zuckerman interviews Bill Gates on what he would do if he was 17 again.
- XNA announces Community…

Have you ever felt inundated with developer tools? Do you ever feel you're missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and a power user?
There are so many tools available to choose from and it keeps getting tougher to keep up with them. Tool familiarity continues to be…